Name: Ep 113: David Cross & All Day IPA
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 113: David Cross & All Day IPA' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-06. Transcript available.

Ep 113: David Cross & All Day IPA

hey folks here we are we might be drunk we're back we got a we got a we got an
old fave here
yeah excited for this guest today david cross i mean not to nerd out here but
like i hate the word
like comedy education but like mr show was huge for me though it was like a
huge show for me
it like taught me like it was like cool comedy to me yeah when i first uh saw
mad tv i had the same
the same sense i guess that something special was happening in come on that was
a huge i've re-watched
some of the sketches today because you know just to you know in anticipation of
having you on i was
like man these they hold up they're great they hold up there you go well it's a
different time too you
could you could get crazy back then yeah well there's definitely stuff on there
that uh somebody
will you know point out every once in a while uh like you know there's that
thing that people say
like hey couldn't do this today couldn't make right but there are truly some
there's a whole thing with
um muhammad ah oh god as muhammad and you know in a very brief little thing
about called like these
whatever it is like crazy religions or some kind it's like a goofy uh thank you
very much
this is going to remind some extremists right now that you did this and get you
in trouble you know
i'll uh we're right now i'll tell you we're on uh 39th on 251
uh well it was also 16th floor uh you come out of the elevator and you're just
going to take a quick
left and then yeah rogan studios down the hall so start there but uh it was so
cool seeing that show
on hbo because you would you'd wear shorts and as a kid that blew my mind yeah
well that was um
it was one of those things that uh it it like bob was a dress up in a suit guy
yeah and i was not
and i i was i just wanted to wear what i was comfortable in because you know
you have you have
a long day and night at the studio when you're when you're shooting at the the
stage and um
and i just didn't i'm not comfortable in suits or or and it's la in the summer
yeah right you know
and there's no there they were the first several years were just shitty well
the first four were in a
in a uh a bar restaurant thing that we just sort of got for the first four tapings
and there's no
ac or ventilation and uh and it was hot it sucked yeah i'm not gonna wear a
suit and and i was also
that kind of um to an annoying degree uh comic who was like anti-authority anti-use
we felt that
what that was part of the fun yeah no i would if i feel i would watch with
friends like you know some
of your friends get it and some of them don't get it but the ones who didn't
get it i'm like
they're fucking dumb yeah you know that was just the reaction i mean there was
so many weird ones
like the monsters of megaphone crooning for whatever reason that one just like
hit me like it's so it's
so weird and great i think that was a uh if i'm if i remember correctly that
was paul f tompkin's
idea i think it was basically there was the monsters of rock tour and um and
just the the the it was kind
of about the hype and the the marketing of it you know and uh and this is
before coachella and all
that kind of stuff and um i think that was that was a great example of like a
sketch that was like a
certain kind of uh idea that you know was a very funny idea and didn't have a
ton of travel to it
or story and then it just became this uh you know through everybody sitting
around and working out
but it was i believe it was paul f tompkin's idea oh he's he's hilarious yeah
that was that was a
great you must have had a ton of pushback from from uh like suits on that show
zero really we had
one note which we took over the four years we had one note and uh and you got
to keep in mind this was
uh early mid 90s and hbo wasn't that established outside of a handful of things
i mean like dream on
was a big show i love you know and uh but they didn't have a ton they it was
pre sopranos and
obviously game of thrones and and uh uh and sex of the city and all that kind
of stuff so um
they you know they gave us whatever it was uh the comedy block with uh chris
rock and i think we
followed chris and uh and it was you know fridays at midnight and anything goes
and right they told us
like and also we were cheap we're got we've got to be one that must have been
one of the cheapest
shows on tv and uh um and they just said yeah we want stuff that you can't have
anywhere else yeah
only exists here and you know obviously pre-streaming and all that stuff and um
wish that was still the
case yeah we literally one note wow yeah we do a jimmy fallon spot and it's
like cut that cut that cut
and you're like what am i doing here yeah yeah oh yeah uh it was there was um i
don't remember the
entirety of the episode or the the but it was bob and i looking back when we
come out in the intros
and we're looking back at our upbringing and then i play my dad and like this
like 1920s like raccoon
coat and 23 skidoo thing and maryland rice cub is uh you know my wife but it's
so it's my dad and my
so it's me as a little baby and um and my dad in their quotes me whatever is
going giving a lot of
attention to the baby this little baby you know a plastic baby clearly a
plastic baby and uh maryland's
like you know what about me what about me i'm like but look at this cute little
thing look at this
adorable little baby and she goes fuck the baby and throws it down on the
ground and there the sole
note was uh you can't say fuck the baby nah you can throw it you can throw it
and you can say screw
this or whatever it ended up being who cares about the bear forget this baby
that was the one note
that's so weird about comedy and notes you know you can you can be like i'm
gonna kill myself but
then if you're like so uh gay people huh they're loud you're like oh the gay
loud yeah well that was a
joke they're killing themselves is probably true wait wait are gay people loud
wow i just threw out
something i don't i'm sure there are some loud gays out there loud and proud i'm
sure there's some but
is that a is that a stereotype i just made one up because i was trying not to
get in trouble
you know it didn't work there uh a lot of the comments are furious yeah um yeah
man that's what
i love about those sketches though is like i just never knew where they were
going oh i just never
i mean we watched we all were watching the ron uh the ronnie dobbs sketch in
here yesterday
and just the fact that it goes to a guy who keeps getting arrested and then the
turn is that he can't
get arrested anymore yeah that that was that was a real uh important part of
the of the kind of the
you know we didn't have rules but uh we had a handful of things that we were
pretty uh uh that
were important like not not doing specific parodies of specific people and to
keep it you know somewhat
vague and to be about the idea of that kind of what that person represents
which i think is
in part why it still holds up you know but um as opposed to like when you watch
snls from
you know there's a sketch about tanya harding you're like what oh i vaguely
remember that you
know but um uh that one of the things was to have to tell a story with the
sketch if you could
you know i mean why not and then it became a movie and it became a movie that
nobody saw
i saw it okay well that there's uh i don't know how many people you got mandy
patenkin in that movie
we did have mandy patenkin we had uh we had a lot of oh man there was some good
stuff and fortunately
it was uh you know bob and i uh you know didn't officially disown it but we
were very
disappointed we were kind of not kind of why am i even qualifying it we were
kicked out of editing
and we didn't have uh we were lied to about certain elements of that we wanted
to uh hand in that
we thought we we just assumed that was we would do what made the show
successful but that was taken
away from us uh by people who clearly know better and uh and so it's it's hard
for bob and i to watch i
can't even i i doubt we either of us have seen it in 20 years but um over 20
years probably but
neither is the public yeah um that's just as god has intended but that would
never get made today
not because it's offensive just because it's not marvel because we're too old
well there you go
nobody wants to see me running around with my shirt off at this point
no thank you pretty good then you were thin yeah then sure yeah but you know
there's only so many
loud gays that are gonna want to see that but we have a title for this episode
oh yeah loud gays
um yeah man but you talk about like snl you know doing those you know i guess
time capsule type
sketches and mad tv were you resentful of those shows we was part of you like
fuck these shows
no not uh i mean bob was more because he had worked there and he did not have a
great experience there
um they didn't get they'd miss out on a lot of talent like bob is a great
example of a guy that
they didn't clearly didn't understand you know it's i've always said this like
it's it's not it it
works for what it is and it's a really hard thing to have um to to have one
week to turn around a live
show and to and to have to uh humor uh a guest who doesn't have any
particularly you know any skill
set and comedy or anything like that and that's that's a hard thing to do and
they i just have zero
interest in it i don't watch it out of like resentment i don't watch it because
it's not very
good and you could tell that there's a lot of great ideas there and if they had
the time yep and
they if they and there's the the the on-screen talent is is you know phenomenal
and i'm i know
that there's good writing in there but they just don't have the time uh but
that's not what they
do that's not what they're part of the fun is how quick it has to be flipped
over well fun is relative
i guess but uh you know it's it's just not that's not for me or people like me
it's for the people
watch it and there's a lot of people loud gay people i think it's for loud gay
people and that's
not me anymore that's the therapy that's more bravo but you brought up bob at
snl i mean like tim
robinson that's another example right he's yeah his sketch show is hilarious
but was he snl he's an
snl guy oh there's so many examples guys there's so many examples uh but that's
not the machine they
created they created a uh a lucrative machine and the that machine works a
certain way and i have zero
interest in that as a comedy writer performer that doesn't interest me at all
but um but i mean it
works yeah you know still on they're always that weird like snl's dead they do
that every 10 years
but it's still here but you can see i mean you'll see a sketch that you know if
it was if that sketch
was able to go through kind of the process we had at mr show like oh man i bet
that would have been a
great that would ended up being a great sketch you certainly have the the comedic
uh acting chops
there everybody's really exceptional and uh um it's just the writing doesn't
get a chance it's but it's
not meant it's that's not what they do yeah what's your what's your favorite mr
show sketch that you
ever did oh man uh i you know there i mean there's so many there there's some
that have a really great
memory attached to it was really fun to perform you know or shoot it um some
that were fun to write i think
there are a handful of like kind of perfect sketches um i think the uh my
favorite and i'm biased because
i wrote it but my favorite one that is just has everything is the prenatal pageants
uh where the
the um prenatal uh baby they have uh uh it's it's you know the southern kind of
three-year-olds and
five-year-olds uh pageantry stuff and and the acting in it is great bob is
tremendous the ideas
fully realized there's a lot of funny stuff in there and poignancy which i
think uh
are we supposed to watch this wow i don't i don't remember this one but aren't
people listening to
this no it's video too watch it all right we get a lot of video uh we don't
have to watch the whole
thing but that's fun to